Barber&#39;s magazine powder brush



LSQEEQZ S. CORSELLO BARBERS MAGAZINE POWDER BRUSH Filed Feb. 4, 1924 Patented Aug. 26, 1924.

UNITED STATES SALVATOR CORSELLO, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

BARBERS MAGAZINE POWDER BRUSH.

Application filed. February 4, 192%.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, SALvAToR ConsELLo, a citizen of the United States, residing in the borough of Brooklyn, Queens County, New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Barbers Magazine Powder Brushes, of which the following is a specification. I I

It is the common practice of barbers to use talcum or other toilet powder upon the face or neck of a person in order to readily remove the cut hair from the surface of the skin. This is usually done by sifting the powder from any suitable container upon the long bristles of the brush used for the purpose, and then brush the same lightly over the skin. This practice not only is wasteful of the powder but necessitates the brushing of the superfluous powder from the garments of the person, and is otherwise unsanitary.

The object of my invention is to provide a powder brush or duster for barbers use with a receptacle for the powder, and means for distributing the powder as needed directly therefrom among the brush bristles comprising a plurality of valve openings from the receptacle with tubes leading from said openings through the brush head and terminating some distance below the same and among the brush bristles.

In the accompanying drawing forming a part hereof,

Fig. 1 is a side view of abrush constructed in accordance with my invention.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same.

Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 1 but with the parts of the brush segregated.

Fig. 4 is a bottom plan of the powder receptacle or container.

Fig. 5 is a plan view of the multiple valve disk.

Fig. 6 is a plan view of the brush head.

Fig. 7 is a side view of one of the distributing tubes.

Fig. 8 is a plan 'of the restoring spring for closing the valves.

Similar reference numerals refer to like parts throughout the specification and drawing.

The brush head 1, is made of wood or any other suitable material, and is provided with the usual tufted bristles 2. The upper face of the head is provided with the recess Serial No. 690,363.

at (shown in Fig. 8) is located. A plurality of apertures 5, extend through the head, within which the tubes 6 are secured, said tubes extending down and terminating among the bristles 2, as shown. Screw apertures 7 are also provided in the upper face of the head 1, into which the screws 8 are inserted to hold the receptacle in place.

Resting upon the upper face of the head 1 is the valve disk 9, having a center stud or pin 10 which enters the center convolution of the restoring spring 4. The disk 9 is somewhat larger in diameter than the head 1, so that when pressure is exerted upon the margin of the disk at any point the spring 4 will be distorted within the recess 3; and when such pressure is released the disk will be restored to its centralized position upon the head 1. The disk is provided with the several enlarged apertures 11 through which the screws 8 may freely pass so as to permit lateral movement of the disk in any direction. The disk 9 is provided with the several valves 12, which are small disks of the sheet from which the disk 9 is struck, each small disk formed by punching out the surrounding metal but leaving the connecting spokes 13 so that the valves 12 are in fact integral with the disk 9, and are located in the plane of the disk 9 so as to register with and cover the several tubes 6 when centralized by the spring 4.

The powder container or receptacle 14: is a cylindrical metal can, having a flat bottom and a screw threaded mouth 15 into which the duster handle 16 is screwed to form a closure therefor. The bottom 17 has a plurality of small apertures 18 through which the screws 8 pass and by which the parts are secured together. The bottom is also provided with a plurality of larger apertures 19 which register with the tubes 6, but are cut off therefrom when the disk 9 is centralized, by the valve disks 12. The small spacing washers 20, surrounding the screws 8 and located within the apertures 11 serve to space the container 14: from the brush head 1, so that the disk 9 may be pushed in by slight pressure upon any part of its margin and thereby shift the valve disks 12 and open the passage directly from the container into the tubes 5, to be dis tributed through the bristles 2, over the neck and face of the person.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that my improved duster is of simple construction, of easy manipulation, the supply of powder to the container readily replenished and inexpensive to manufacture,

I claim:

1. In a barbers powder brush, the coinbi nation of a brush head, a powder receptacle spaced from but secured to said head, registering apertures in the bot-tom of said receptacle and in said head, and a valve disk universally slidahle between. said head and said receptacle, and means for automatically centralizing said disk whereby said registering apertures are normally closed.

2. In a barbers powder brush, the combination of a brush head, a powder container secured thereto and spaced therefrom, registering apertures in the bottom of said container and through said head respectively,

and a valve disk between said head and container, said disk being slidiable in any direction to open said registering apertures, and spring means for centralizing said disk to close said apertures.

3. In a barbers powder brush, the combination of a powder container having a plurality of discharge apertures therein, a brush head secured to and spaced from the bottom of said container, said head having a plurality of apertures therethrough in open registry with those of the said container and a disk of larger diameter than that of the container a plurality of disk valves in said disk and spring means connecting said head and disk for centralizing said disk to cause said disk valves to close said registering apertures.

4. In a barbers powder brush, the combination of a brush head, a powder receptacle spaced from but secured to said head, registering apertures in the bottom of said receptacle and in said head, and a'valve disk universally slidable between said head and said receptacle, and means for automatically centralizing said disk whereby. said registering apertures are normally closed, and discharge tubes fitted into the apertures in said head.

SALVATOR GORSELLO. 

